Dover, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Maysville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41034. It stands on Lee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Higginsport quadrangle. 221 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 518 feet above sea level.
On record in Dover
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
Lee's Creek Covered Bridgelisted 1976
Sroufe Houselisted 2016
Population over time
3 figuresDover fell from 316 to 221 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 316 | |
| 2010 | 252 | -64 (-20%) |
| 2020 | 221 | -31 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1928 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:48000
- 1931 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Dover in 1997, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dover: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maysville Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dover in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | $25,000 | Trees fell on three houses due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | $6,000 | Several trees and power lines were downed near Dover in the area of State Route 8. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | $5,000 | A tree fell onto a house on Market Street. |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Dover | $5,000 | Roads closed due to heavy rainfall. |
| December 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | $3,000 | Trees were knocked down. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | $3,000 | Several trees were knocked down. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Dover | $2,000 | Water was reported over a bridge due to heavy rain. |
| August 2001 | Flash Flood | Dover | - | Rainfall as high as 6 to 8 inches in just a few hours caused significant flooding across the county. Rte 8 in the northeastern part of the county was flooded, 2 bridges were washed out near Dover, and 2 people were rescued from high water in Orangeburg. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Ripley | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Minerva | 4.1 miles | 10 | |
| Moranburg | 7.1 miles | 13 | |
| Fernleaf | 7.2 miles | 10 | |
| Dexter (historical) | 9.3 miles | 10 | |
| Country Club Heights | 9.6 miles | 13 | |
| Simon Kenton Acres (historical) | 9.8 miles | 13 | |
| Shawnee Hill (historical) | 10.0 miles | 13 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Dover | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2435102 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 491066. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.







